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Sean Thompson @SeanThompson99

University of Oklahoma Alumni Yukon, OK Joined August 2011
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Riley Collins @rileycollins__

a week ago

The most thankless job in the world is being a fantasy football commissioner. Here is the official Commissioners Lives Matter flag.

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OSU Cowboy Football @CowboyFB

2 weeks ago

Final: Tulsa 24, Oklahoma State 10

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Oklahoma Football @OU_Football

4 weeks ago

Clear eyes, full hearts, two weeks.

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Ryan Cohen @ryancohen

5 months ago

Proposal to acquire eBay. investor.gamestop.com/ebay

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Ryan Cohen @ryancohen

7 months ago

The Hollow Men American capitalism is rotting from the head down. We have replaced the "Owner-Operator"—the risk-taker-with a new, parasitic class of corporate bureaucrat: The Risk-Free Insider. By "Insider," I am not referring to a specific title. I am referring to the entire administrative state that has captured the modern corporation. This includes the Directors who exist solely to collect fees, the Executives who exist solely to collect bonuses, and the Managers who exist solely to hire consultants. These are the hollow men of the boardroom. They are masters of PowerPoint. They wear the right suits. They say the right buzzwords about "governance" and "ESG." But they are mercenaries fighting a war with someone else’s ammunition. In a functioning economy, authority is tied to liability. If you make a bad decision, you lose your own money. That fear of loss is the only thing that keeps a business honest. It forces you to cut waste, obsess over the customer, and stay late to fix what is broken. Today, we have severed that link. We have rigged the game so that heads, the Insider wins; tails, the shareholder loses. If the stock goes up, the Insider collects a massive performance bonus. If the stock crashes due to their own incompetence, they are fired with a "Golden Parachute" worth tens of millions. They are gambling with the house’s money, and they never leave the table poorer than they arrived. This looting starts in the boardroom. We have normalized a "Country Club" culture where directors are selected based on social profiling rather than their ability to build a business. The modern board member is often a professional tourist—paid an average of $350,000 a year. Let’s be brutally honest about what that number represents. The average director is paid nearly five times the GDP per capita of the United States. They earn more for attending four quarterly lunches than the vast majority of Americans earn in five years of hard labor. And for what? Most of these directors are "over-boarded," sitting on three or four boards simultaneously. They treat directorships as a gig economy for the elite. They fly in, rubber-stamp a compensation package they didn't read, and fly out. They collect checks from companies they do not understand, do not use, and certainly do not love. They are not there to ask hard questions. They are there to be collegial. They are there to protect the other Insiders. And what happens when these boards hire executives who also have no personal capital at risk? We get the Delegation Economy. When a Risk-Free Insider faces a crisis—bloated expenses, a broken supply chain, or a stale product—they do not roll up their sleeves. They hire a consultant. They pay a strategy firm millions of shareholder dollars to produce a 100-page deck telling them what they already know. This is not management. It is intellectual money laundering. They use shareholder capital to buy an insurance policy for their own careers. If the plan fails, they can blame the consultants. They delegate the work because they are terrified of the responsibility. They would rather preside over a slow, comfortable decline than risk a bold mistake. While American Insiders are busy optimizing their severance packages, our global competitors are optimizing their products. They are not slowed down by bureaucracy. They are not waiting for a slide deck. They are outworking us. If we continue to fill our C-suites with administrators instead of operators, we will lose our edge. We will see iconic American franchises hollowed out by fees, managed for the benefit of the Insiders, while the true owners—the shareholders—are left holding the bag. The time for polite governance is over. If we want to save the American economy from mediocrity, we must demand a return to the "Owner’s Mentality." We need leaders who treat shareholder capital with the same reverence they treat their own savings. The era of the Risk-Free Insider must end.

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FOX College Hoops @CBBonFOX

2 years ago

Repost if your team is still undefeated

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GameStop @gamestop

2 years ago

This Christmas, open gifts like it’s 1998. gamestop.com/414295

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Sean Thompson @SeanThompson99

2 years ago

@hearn_jeffery @HulkCapital $22 the same price as those $25s

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DraftKings @DraftKings

2 years ago

@KirkHerbstreit Ben was loved by so many ❤️

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Oklahoma Football @OU_Football

2 years ago

A message from the HBC 🔊 @CoachVenables x @CollegeGameDay

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Seth Oliveras  @SethOliveras

2 years ago

Sometimes I watch OU's goal line stand against Texas just so I can feel something.

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GameStop @gamestop

2 years ago

Gamers, how old are you? We're turning 40 this year! 👀 🚀🎂 #GameStop40

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The Pickup @thepickupdotcom

2 years ago

you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

12 years ago

I wish everyone, including the haters and losers, a very happy Easter!

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Sisyphus @0xSisyphus

3 years ago

Do crackheads ever say, “I’m too broke to smoke crack tonight”? No. They get up and make it happen. Lesson in there.

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Paycom @Paycom

3 years ago

Time-off decisions are a hassle for everyone. But with Paycom’s GONE™ they don’t have to be. It automates time-off decision-making to meet your org’s unique needs. Read more. #PaycomGONE pycm.co/41fDsQc

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Sean Thompson @SeanThompson99

3 years ago

@baber70 Quotes a man above the age of 70 😂

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Rollo Tomasi @DrunkUncTony

3 years ago

This the video imma show the Aliens when they ask what being from the United States means.

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XXL Magazine @XXL

3 years ago

Twista raps "Overnight Celebrity" while someone shoots a gun to match the song's beat.

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Tattoo Baker 🎥✨ @TattooBaker

3 years ago

Dad what was it like yellin “Stooooooops” at Oklahoma Dad:

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